Full Title: Rebuilding American Manufacturing—Potential Job Gains by State and Industry
Author(s): Robert E. Scott, Zane Mokhiber, Daniel Perez
Publisher(s): Economic Policy Institute
Publication Date: October 20, 2020
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Description (excerpt):
This report examines the economic output and employment implications of a two-pronged strategy for rebuilding the domestic economy around high-wage jobs and restoring American manufacturing. Job losses due to growing U.S. trade deficits hit manufacturing industries particularly hard, shrinking the share of middle-class jobs available to workers without a college degree (Scott 2020; Scott and Mokhiber 2020). Failure to maintain and upgrade U.S. infrastructure investment has been a chronic weakness, hindering American public safety and productivity growth (ASCE 2017; Bivens 2014).